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I remember a young teen from Sacramento that was sent away from his family some years ago (good ole Capital Christian Center) to live with a terrible family that intended to beat the gayness out of him. It was an "exchange program" later he commited suicide.

That is disgusting. Absolutely positively not the way a parent should ever treat their child.

Turns my stomach to think how any mother could do anything remotely rotten to their own child. I know sometimes people do things because they think it is best but good grief where is the common since? Humanity? So called christian behavior?

Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from your speech, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination ... end of debate.

I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some other elements of God's Laws and how to follow them.

1. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?

2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?

3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness - Lev.15: 19-24. The problem is how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.

4. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is, my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?

5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2. clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to do it?

6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination - Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? Are there 'degrees' of abomination?

7. Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle-room here?

8. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. How should they die?

9. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?

10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev.19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? Lev.24:10-16. Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair, like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)

I know you have studied these things extensively and thus enjoy considerable expertise in such matters, so I am confident you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.

I'll post this from a site where people are discussing Ms Kern's statements. I found it humorous, but I should probably make a disclaimer before posting it. Please do not take it that I'm a heterophobe or have any problems or issues with heterosexual people. Hell, my own parents are heterosexual; so were my grandparents.

Heterosexual Questionnaire

Please answer the following questions as honestly as possible.

1. What do you think caused your heterosexuality?2. When and how did you first decide you were heterosexual?3. Is it possible that your heterosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of?4. Is it possible that your heterosexuality stems from a fear of others of the same sex?5. If you have never slept with a member of your own sex, is it possible that you might be gay if you tried it?6. If heterosexuality is normal, why are so many mental patients heterosexual?7. Why do you heterosexual people try to seduce others into your lifestyle?8. Why do you flaunt your heterosexuality? Can't you just be who you are and keep it quiet?9. The great majority of child molesters are heterosexual. Do you consider it safe to expose your children to heterosexual teachers?10. With all the societal support that marriage receives, the divorce rate is spiraling. Why are there so few stable relationships among heterosexual people?11. Why are heterosexual people so promiscuous?12. Would you want your children to be heterosexual, knowing the problems they would face, such as heartbreak, disease, and divorce?

you knowi have experience dealing with people like her (there are several groups here in Sacramento). The best "weapon" is not feeding the fuel (with emails and links to info about her son) nor is it productive to try to engage her in discussions about wrong or right (it's if they are almost "brainwashed" with responses to everything). yeah, you might feel disgusted and feel a little rage build up, but, you know that's what a lot of the people and groups who are "programmed" to think this way want. They want you to fear, they want you to hate. (when they are the ones that are most fearful)

Maybe the best way to respond to someone like this is to do something completely unexpected and opposite of what they want? Something to disarm them? I'm sure you all can be creative.Something to think about.

Hmm..okay...well I don't see anything wrong with saying to her, "People like you make me afraid to live in my own country and in my opinion that makes YOU a terrorist."

See, I didn't say "hate" and I defended my words by saying "my opinion." I didn't reveal the skeletons in my closet.

I'm just like her! She should adopt me!

She's already has a gay son, why would she want a daughter?

I find it hilarious that Salacious Sally is such a bigot. Her son Jesse was the biggest queen on the campus of OBU in the mid-90ís. Twice he almost was expelled for making inappropriate advances in the library toilets. When he wasnít cruising the toilets he was in the glee club and a piano majorÖthereís your sign.

When I worked at Disney World, the right wing hate-monger southern baptist would always try and march in protest on Gay Day. Disney wouldn't let them on the property so they would march out in Kississmmee near the main entrance...I would just drive by and laugh. They really looked pitiful. Maybe that is the way to deal with these people.

Besides I also found it funny that Gay Day always sells out the park. Shuts down from people coming in it is so full. That only happens on Christmas Day, 4th of July and New Years Eve.

Oh that was nothing.You missed her rant that all blacks shuffle, sell drugs and are slow.And she claims she has every "right" to speak cause of her freedom of speech.A little twisted thinking if you ask me.She's a bigot and probably never knew a gay person, other than what she heard fromwatching the 700 club.Is it any wonder people are so against and fearful of gay marriage issues?Or states think they need to make laws "protecting" people like her?

OKLAHOMA CITY -- The son of a state lawmaker who has condemned homosexuality as a worse threat to the U.S. than "terrorists or Islam" said Friday he wants it known that he is "straight and not gay."

Jesse Kern, son of Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City, said information purporting that he is gay, which has appeared on several blogs, is damaging to himself and his family.

Kern, 31, said he feels the media has a responsibility to seek out the truth, then report it.

Kern, who said he is affiliated with the Des Moines School of Metaphysics, said that he chooses to be celibate, but he is not homosexual.

"First of all, no one's sexuality is anyone's business. It is not even my mother's business," he said. "I practice celibacy to give to my God," he said.

Kern said metaphysics helps teach him such things such as concentration, which has helped him keep focused with all the adverse publicity surrounding his mother's comments.

Kern said his mother's comments apparently were taken out of context. He has not chosen to listen to the audio version that has been disseminated widely throughout the nation.

Kern's views differ from those of his mother, although he applauds her for standing up for what she believes, and thanks his parents for his good upbringing. His father is a Baptist minister in Oklahoma City.

He said the purpose of sex is reproduction, and it is the function of the animal body.

"But we are more than animals, and we can use sex for a tool of deep relationship with another person."

Kern added that what is more important than whether it be a relationship with someone of the same sex, is that there "needs to be honor in any relationship whether it is a straight or gay relationship."

Unlike his spiritually lost mother, Jesse Kern seems to be a grounded and intelligent person. Jesus Christ of course never mentioned ONE WORD about homosexuals or homosexuality, a fact some people seem to overlook.

Donít get swallowed up in hateful speeches by well intentioned but lost souls. Their values are anti-Christís teaching.

Unlike his spiritually lost mother, Jesse Kern seems to be a grounded and intelligent person. Jesus Christ of course never mentioned ONE WORD about homosexuals or homosexuality, a fact some people seem to overlook.

Well Jesus didn't actually say all that much and what he did say was either:

1. Unoriginal2. Ambiguous at best.

Which was really rank laziness on Jesus' part. It means his followers have spent the last 2000 years filling in the blanks and they're pretty clear on these things. Jesus' good friend Paul, for example, damns homos to hell in his letters to the Corinthians. I think it gets a run in Timothy as well.

Now "celibacy" (especially amongst christians of the Kerns' stripe) is code for "I'm a dirty queer, but I'm terrified Jesus is gonna sling me into hell" and that's cool. But whatever he is, he's neither intelligent nor well grounded.

I was talking to one of my neighbors about politics and she brought up gay marriage. Her views were that because so many women and women or men and men couples are raising children, it therefore gives children the "choice" to be gay? So I say being gay is not a choice, that is the way you were born. No, if kids see this at a young age it gives them the option for when they get older? WTF ? She then said she has had gay friends, why does one guy always act like a girl and the other one act like a guy? That just goes to show you it is supposed to a man and a women. I don't know? I don't think all of them do. Why do you do anything you do? Because that is who you are? I had to leave to pick up the kids but it just goes to show that this kind of thinking is everywhere. Snow

I was talking to one of my neighbors about politics and she brought up gay marriage. Her views were that because so many women and women or men and men couples are raising children, it therefore gives children the "choice" to be gay

I was talking to one of my neighbors about politics and she brought up gay marriage....

A coworker/friend asked me, after we returned from getting married, "So who's the wife and who's the husband?"Since she knew I could have a razor sharp since of humor and gave me that smile, which was a total invite to make a wise ass comment I said, "Who ever has the cleanest ass is the wife". She blew her coffee through her nose...

A coworker/friend asked me, after we returned from getting married, "So who's the wife and who's the husband?"Since she knew I could have a razor sharp since of humor and gave me that smile, which was a total invite to make a wise ass comment I said, "Who ever has the cleanest ass is the wife". She blew her coffee through her nose...

Oh that was nothing.You missed her rant that all blacks shuffle, sell drugs and are slow.And she claims she has every "right" to speak cause of her freedom of speech.A little twisted thinking if you ask me.She's a bigot and probably never knew a gay person, other than what she heard fromwatching the 700 club.Is it any wonder people are so against and fearful of gay marriage issues?Or states think they need to make laws "protecting" people like her?

Actually she does have the "right" to say what she wants. You may not agree with her, but she still has the right. Just as you have the right to say things that you want that she doesn't agree with, but you still have the right to say it. That is Freedom of Speech.